@inbook{122af42088eb4dfcb3c79d5ce7b8f1b4,
title = "Addressivity",
abstract = "Addressivity, a term coined by Mikhail Bakhtin in his attempt to redirect linguistics, indicates that an essential feature of language is that it is always oriented to a listener. Addressivity is what turns a sentence, a mere potential utterance, into an actual utterance. Listeners do not just respond to an utterance after it is made; they also shape it while it is being made. Addressivity also includes an utterance's implicit dialogue with earlier utterances on the same topic. Words 'remember' their contexts. Addressivity also includes the utterance's orientation to a 'superaddressee,' an imagined perfect listener who would understand perfectly.",
keywords = "Addressivity, Alibi, Already-spoken-about, Dialogue, Double-voiced, Inner speech, Reader reception theory, Responsibility, Sidelong glance, Superaddressee, Surplus, Surprisingness, Utterance, Word with a loophole",
author = "Morson, {G. S.}",
note = "Funding Information: Gary Saul Morson is Frances Hooper Professor of the Arts and Humanities and Professor of Slavic Languages at Northwestern University. He was educated at Oxford and at Yale, where he received his Ph.D. in 1974. A member of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences and a recipient of a fellowship from the Center for Advanced Studies in the Behavioral Sciences, he has received {\textquoteleft}best book of the year{\textquoteright} awards from the American Comparative Literature Association (for Narrative and freedom: the shadows of time) and from AATSEEL, the Slavic literatures association (for Mikhail Bakhtin: creation of a prosaics, co-authored with Caryl Emerson). Under the pseudonym Alicia Chudo, he published a volume of parodies of Russian literature and thought (And quiet flows the vodka). Morson has written several books and over one hundred articles on Tolstoy, Dostoevsky, the European novel, satire, and utopia, and is known for studies that are both literary and philosophical. He is presently completing a study of the aphorism and other forms of quotation.",
year = "2006",
doi = "10.1016/B0-08-044854-2/00389-8",
language = "English (US)",
isbn = "9780080448541",
pages = "55--58",
booktitle = "Encyclopedia of Language & Linguistics",
publisher = "Elsevier Ltd",
}